Volume 41, Number 14 · August 11, 1994
Mr. Liberty
By Ronald Dworkin
Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge
by Gerald Gunther
Knopf, 818 pp., $35.00
After law school, I clerked for a year for Judge Learned Hand, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan. One evening I had to drop off a memorandum at his house, and I asked a young woman whom I had just met, and who was having dinner with me, to come along because it would take only a second. But when Hand answered the door, he invited us in, made dry martinis, and talked to my new friend for almost two hours about art history, his old friend Bernard Berenson, the state of Harvard College, New York politics, the Supreme Court, and much more. When we left, walking down the brownstone steps, she asked, 'If I see more of you, do I get to see more of him?'
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